We have just released an update to our Enterprise Collaboration and Social Software Evaluations. The reviews for blueKiwi, Drupal Commons, Igloo, Socialtext and Telligent have been updated. Here's a sneak peek

Official word is not yet out (weekends in France start early, right?) but the co-founder & ex-CEO of French social software vendor blueKiwi confirmed its acquisition by systems integrator Atos, also of French Origin

We just released an update to our Enterprise Collaboration and Social Software Report which evaluates nineteen Enterprise 2.0 vendors. Version 4.1 includes updated reviews of three software suites (Jive, Socialtext, blueKiwi) and two specialists (MindTouch, Mediawiki).

Here’s a quick snapshot of what you’ll find in this update:

Dassault Systèmes, a major product lifecycle management (PLM) vendor, has announced the acquisition of enterprise search vendor Exalead. Which of course leads to the two usual questions with any acquisition

This week we updated our collaboration and social computing vendor evaluations. Specifically, we updated the following reviews

How can we best understand the broad social software and collaboration vendor marketplace? I'd just been pondering that question when

At CMS Watch we evaluate an awful lot of products, and making sense of all this research can be a challenge.